Italy and the English Romantics: The Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth-Century EnglandCambridge University Press, 09.06.2011 - 312 Seiten A fashionable and well-informed interest in Italy was a feature of English intellectual life in the first half of the 19th century. Most cultured people could read Italian and knew something of Italian literature. Young ladies learned to sing in Italian, whilst young gentlemen completed their education with a tour in Italy. Painters went there to make copies from Raphael; architects to sketch the Graeco-Roman ruins. Men of letters in particular found themselves drawn to Italy and much Romantic literature reflects this interest; many works owe their origin to Italian literature. In this book, which was originally published in 1957, Dr Brand traces the growth and decline of the social fashion which made Italy the goal of so many cultured Englishmen. He examines in particular the extent and significance of Italy's fascination for the English romantic writers, and traces the effects of the fashion in music, painting, architecture and political affairs. |
Inhalt
The English travellers in Italy 7666 | 26 |
THE INTEREST IN ITALIAN LITERATURE | 47 |
English interest in Italian painting sculpture | 137 |
The romance of Italian history | 187 |
Conclusion page | 225 |
Selected works published in England 180050 on Italian | 246 |
Notes | 261 |
277 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Italy and the English Romantics: Passages from the Autobiography Leigh Hunt Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1984 |
Italy and the English Romantics, the Italianate Fashion in Early Nineteenth ... C P (Charles Peter) Brand Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2021 |
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